Review Request: Workaround for the hang (freeze) when opening VLC's file dialog under KDE...

[Thiago Macieira]

On Friday, 4 de February de 2011 14:06:58 Dawit A wrote:
> BTW, there is one side issue I noticed in QProcess through this whole
> process. Why does QProcess not exit immediately if I invoke kill or
> terminate or even when it just timed out from waiting for the child
> process ? IOW, why wait some more for the child process to exit under
> those circumstances ? That is what unnecessarily prolongs or even
> doubles the blocking period.

kill() or terminate() just send the signals. There's no guarantee that the 
process will exit immediately, so why should QProcess notify you of that 
immediately? This is especially true for SIGTERM, since that one can be caught 
and handled.

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